A pencil soldering iron and nine more ideas keep Inventor 101 busy

With nothing new posted, a six-month-old video of ten recycling inventions from plastic bottles and PVC pipe has passed 1.5 million views.

Channel: Inventor 101Story of October 1, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

10 Genius inventions by inventor 101

What does a DIY channel with more than six million subscribers do on a week without a new upload? Inventor 101 let the old workbench carry on.

The busiest video is "10 Genius inventions by inventor 101," posted about six months ago. It turns plastic bottles, old toys and offcuts of PVC pipe into everyday tools, and it has passed 1.5 million views. It is still drawing around five thousand a day, which is far more than anything else on the channel right now.

Two shorter collections follow it, a long way behind. "7 Genius DIY inventions" works the same recycling idea. "6 Genius inventions" is the more electronic one: its description lists a power bank, a DJ light, a Bluetooth speaker, an LED light, a small audio amplifier and a soldering iron made from a pencil. That last one is the kind of build a curious reader clicks on just to see how it could work. The channel's about text, for its part, keeps its reminder short: have fun, and remember that anything you try is at your own risk.

Subscribers held steady over the past days.

In the DIY, building and home group, Inventor 101 sits fourth by subscribers, just below 5-MINUTE REPAIR. The busy stretch belongs to Home RenoVision DIY, which is running well above its usual daily views, while Architectural Digest is also a little ahead of its normal pace.

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The videos drawing views on Inventor 101 right now

7 Genius DIY inventions307,581 views 6 Genius inventions 181,270 views

The numbers

Here are the figures behind Inventor 101's week.

subscribers

6,050,000

total views

2,009,759,642

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Architectural Digest

8,010,000

Adam Savage’s Tested

7,290,000

5-MINUTE REPAIR

6,780,000

Inventor 101

6,050,000

I did a thing

5,660,000

SB Mowing - Shorts

5,070,000

Living Big In A Tiny House

4,780,000

Half-Asleep Chris

4,680,000

Home RenoVision DIY

4,290,000

As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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